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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:55:53 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:41:29PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >>Are you still considering smalldevfs for 2.6 inclusion? If not, then I'd 
> >>like to discuss with you (and Greg KH) the possibility of just 
> >>eliminating devfs entirely, and moving to a userspace version that is 
> >>driven entirely by /sbin/hotplug.
> >
> >
> >You mean with something like this:
> >	http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=94
> >:)
> >
> 
> Yep, that's the one. Sounds very simple and straightforward to me. The most 
> complex part will be defining some file structure to define the user's 
> desired naming policy to the agent that handles the hotplug events.

Exactly.  Luckily it looks like I'm starting to get a lot of help with
this :)

As I'm still working on providing enough support from within sysfs to
export all the data we need, Dan Stekloff (cced) has started to work on
a design document for how the userspace stuff will work.

I just need a few more hours per day...

thanks,

greg k-h
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